Maverick Becoming Iconic

[A Sturdy Beast]

Classic truck + rarely ordered color = my Maverick will be even more sought after!!!!

I'm picking up my Iconic Silver hybrid in two days. Can't wait to join the club!

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[K5Blazer]

I'm picking up my Iconic Silver hybrid in two days. Can't wait to join the club!

YES!

 

[Maverickman74]

The Maverick will never be an automotive icon, any more than the last generation Ranger - of which I owned two. It is a cheap automotive appliance that will please people like us who are looking for a cheap trucklet.

The Tacoma is an icon. The F150 is an icon. The Maverick is not and probably never will be an icon. Come on folks - it is a stretched Escape SUV with the back chopped off.

Tacoma's are not iconic for one thing. Also the small bodied Rangers absolutely are. Admittedly the control arm style models aren't as good as the I beam type but Rangers pretty much defined Baja.

 

[RatherBeDrivingaManual]

It will be obligatory, that the interior of all first gen mavericks with over 1000 miles will be scratched up.

 

[Deleted member 14823]

a vehicle is iconic when white old wealthy men clamor for it

Going to write to Jay Leno now and see if he'll make me an offer.

 

[Gullzway]

Odds on my Maverick lasting as long as my Mustang, 55 years?

 

[Montana]

Odds on my Maverick lasting as long as my Mustang, 55 years?

The plastic parts? Yes. With scratches, but yes. The rest, I give it a 1/10 chance. (pretty much how I feel about anything modern)

Have you been the only owner of that Mustang? Because that would be awesome. I wonder the percentage of classics still under their original owners name.

 

[Gullzway]

Have you been the only owner of that Mustang? Because that would be awesome. I wonder the percentage of classics still under their original owner's name.

No, I bought it in '99. Was in an older gentleman's garage and hadn't been tagged or driven in 8 years. Not sure if he was the original owner, I don't recall asking back then.

 

[Robert C]

Can't even get a die cast model of this truck yet let alone the real thing. No Hotwheels no Matchbox no nothing. Not very iconic.

 

[Huchipapa]

I don't see the Maverick pickup as much as iconic as I see it as nostalgic. I haven't had this much fun since I drove a Ford Ranger and owned a Chevy S-10 in the late 1980's through the mid 1990's. I never knew I missed small trucks until I drove the Maverick! Plus, when I was a kid in the 1970's my parents owned the Maverick 2-door car. My Dad had a Maverick, I now have a Maverick. For me, the Maverick pickup is more about coming full circle with happy memories and making some new ones. After two decades of driving full-size pickups...my friends think I've lost my mind when they see me drive this truck.

Not gonna lie - fond (if not rose-tinted) memories of the original Maverick got enough of my attention to even consider a Ford (I’m a J-VIN lover). This will be my first domestic branded car ever.

The original Maverick had great design lines. Of course these days I realize the Nova and Mopars had superior engineering, but as a 9 year old car aficionado that didn’t matter much!

 

[WNYEscapee]

Those were never manufactured. Ford put a hold on that option very quickly in mid summer of '21 right before production started. Those of us who ordered that option had to put in a new order and received a $2200 rebate because we had to switch to AWD to get the 4K tow package.

https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/f...ancelled-fwd-2-0l-4k-tow-package-orders.2423/

https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/f...-package-53q-must-add-awd-for-4k-towing.1492/

That is not to say they didn't exist. They had to have produced and tested such a model. If one still exists, and there is any means to obtain it, in the future it could be worth something depending upon just how relevant and how many more years the Maverick remains in production. It would be a true unicorn.

 

[jorl]

SO...with all the people buying 2(or 3) MAVERICKS,what about the REAL INVESTORS? Who are buying 15 or 20(or more) and putting them in a coal mine up north? the days of "a real unicorn" are over.EVERYONE is an investor today.

 

[kfw63]

I started driving in 1981. 70's cars were quite plentiful in that time. Most guys sought a Camaro, Mustang, Chevelle, Cutlass 442, one of the Mopars, and so forth. A good humble choice was the Nova. The Maverick was down there with the Vega and Pinto in desirability. That said, some of us took what we could. Even with humble means, the Maverick wasn't high on the list.

How many remember the Gran Torino? It was a much cooler Ford from that era.

Starsky & Hutch.

 

[BryanSD]

Not gonna lie - fond (if not rose-tinted) memories of the original Maverick got enough of my attention to even consider a Ford (I’m a J-VIN lover). This will be my first domestic branded car ever.

The original Maverick had great design lines. Of course these days I realize the Nova and Mopars had superior engineering, but as a 9 year old car aficionado that didn’t matter much!

A 1976 Nova 4-Door was my family's second new car (the Maverick being the first). When I hit college in the late 1980's I inherited the Nova. My friends called it the "rust mobile" and by then it was probably more rust than mobile.

 

[Ponchsox]

It’s not an investment. It’s a depreciating asset.

Most of the time, you are correct but I made money on the last vehicle I sold. I purchased in 2019 and sold it this year for a profit.

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